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The boss is back
A camera crew catches up with David Brent, the former star of the fictional British series, "The Office" as he now fancies himself a rockstar on the road.
David Brent: Life on the Road
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Ricky Gervais Ben Bailey Smith Rebecca Gethings Jo Hartley Andrew Brooke Tom Bennett Tom Basden Mandeep Dhillon Diane Morgan Kevin Bishop Ashley McGuire Roisin Conaty Abbie Murphy Nina Sosanya Stacha Hicks Andy Burrows Stephen Clarke Michael Clarke Kim Benson Alfie Stewart Rob Jarvis Dermot Keaney Oliver Maltman Peter Andre Alexander Arnold
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Life on the Road, המשרד - דיויד ברנט: החיים על הדרך, David Brent: A Vida na Estrada, David Brent: Hayat Yolunda, 路上人生, Девід Брент: Життя в дорозі, דיויד ברנט: החיים על הדרך, David Brent: Życie w trasie, Ντέιβιντ Μπρεντ: Σε Περιοδεία, 데이비드 브렌트 - 라이프 온 더 로드, David Brent: Vida en la carretera
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Brazil
19 Aug 2016
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Romania
19 Aug 2016
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19 Aug 2016
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I get the sneaking suspicion this whole thing was came about because Ricky Gervais wanted people to think of him as a talented singer-songwriter (spoiler alert: he's not).
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I don't remember the old Brent giggling incessantly the way he does here. Most effective as evidence that Stephen Merchant was the true creative genius of The Office.
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I recently watched “The Office” for the first time (it was great but I still like the US version a bit better, but I won’t discuss that in this review), so I decided to watch this movie too.
The series had a good ending, since it was open and left us with a lot of hope for the characters and their futures, but this movie kinda ruined David Brent’s ending and it would probably have benefited from not having any connection to “The Office”.
The only character that returns is David Brent and he returns in an environment full of characters, who are just bad versions of the characters from the series or boring assholes.
The movie started out well… -
There’s a moment towards the end of this where Dawn substitute Karen spells out that underneath the bluster and bravado, David Brent is an admirable man and an optimist and we should all love him accordingly despite his human faults. The Office got to this conclusion carefully by taking Brent to the brink of self destruction and loathing and then delivering one of the sweetest and most surprisingly effective emotional moments of redemption in comedy history. This film however has to get someone to simply spell it out because the film has done precisely no work getting us to this point
The weirdest thing about this film is at heart it’s a meta commentary on Ricky Gervais desperate need to…
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I was a huge fan of the BBC's The Office... some 15 years ago.
It was an innovational comedy that put out two short, brilliant seasons and a Christmas special then left while still on top like the most glorious of rock stars, not overstaying its welcome . It was even fun to see Gervais sell the rights to America and let Steve Carrell have a go at it until they beat the joke into the ground so hard it came out the other side in China.Since then, Ricky Gervais' comedy career has emulated a similar trajectory to that of his favorite character. He blew up as an overnight success and has been grasping at straws ever since to…
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After the ending of The Office UK, David Brent seeks to make his life much enjoyable after falling into the same job as he had as a seller, instead now he’s an employee and everyone arounds him for the most part hates him. The man has also reached that mid-life crisis and with all this burden he’s set to bring back his days of glory by forming a band. Unfortunately his song are the most un-PC and insulting things you can think of, the music is alright but ain’t what the youth is interested plus his showmanship is pretty terrible and everyone pretty much hates him.
Many will call this a dark comedy, but I feel this is the very…
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"Life's a struggle, with little beautiful surprises that make you wanna carry on through all the shit." - David Brent
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Fool's Paradise
David Brent (comedian, singer-songwriter, former office manager and star of the BBC documentary The Office) is taking his band on a self-funded tour to launch his music career in yet another fruitless bid for acceptance.
The BBC series, which originally brought him into the spotlight, was a stitch-up, as David calls it, and he's tired of the heckling and ridicule. He's not that guy - it's just that the world doesn't know it yet. If he can refashion his image into that of a musical icon like Sting, then maybe he will no longer have to coerce people into having a drink with him. Perhaps he will be genuinely liked by his peers and forgiven for his uncanny…
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Yes I’m giving this five stars, fuck you. Ricky Gervais is one of the funniest humans ever, everything he does is hilarious, David Brent is one of the best characters to ever grace television. I love that he got the same actors he used for this back in his other masterpieces (Derek and After Life), everyone is so natural making it so much funnier. The music itself isn’t actually terrible and I wish they included the song ‘Freelove Freeway’ from the original show which is actually concerningly good. One of the funniest movies ever made which probably isn’t for everyone but I love and that’s all that matters.
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The songs are amusing and Ricky Gervais will always be funny, but the film itself lacks a purpose and an end goal, which it probably needed as it just starts to get depressing near the end when absolutely nothing has changed for David Brent throughout the film.
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This only doesn't feel as fun because David Brent was always a fictional character constantly defeated by his worst impulses. He was a believable, unbearable character starved for affection and acceptance and seeking it in the worst way imaginable. And he always failed. But in the time between The Office and this, the world has changed. Narcissists like Brent are rewarded for their behavior.
It makes for an interesting examination of a type of person and casts David as a much more sympathetic character because his actions come from a misguided but ultimately harmless place. He can't compete with the real world analogues. Gervais has admitted as such in writing this and his awareness was the film's saving grace. He…
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